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Decided to have a miniblog for short thoughts. These won't be put in the Atom feed since I want a place where I can add things without the very manual process of adding to the feed. Contrast my main blog, although the entries there aren't that much longer.
I might upgrade miniblog entries to real blog ones, particularly if they end up being more than a few sentences; in that case, I will add a link to the main blog page from the miniblog entry.
Newer entries are higher. Just like the main blog page, if there are too many entries, I'll make a miniblog2.html, miniblog3.html, etc, and I'll mention that on the feed.
I am considering the merits of adding a miniblog digest to the site feed, where once in a while, I'll link to the miniblog entries that were added since the last update. It would remain low-friction, probably only being added to the feed along with another update where I would update the feed.
I'm messing about with a dumb idea with Toki Pona called Toki ne Pona that you can check out here. This is a rough draft.
It is a set of fully optional, fully removable prefix words you can use to make your Toki Pona statements more readable. Text should be convertable directly to grammatical Toki Pona by simply erasing the Toki ne Pona additions - it might not be that readable since it was written with the expectation that certain things were clarified, but it is designed to be both easy to learn and easy to ignore.
I had considered doing an "upgraded" version of the language, but honestly, fighting the tide of existing users and trying to push my changes is not something I feel like doing.
I'll add this to my Toki Pona page at some point, and will write a full blog entry too. This would be a full blog entry, but I still need to work on it and make an HTML set of documentation for it.
(November 16th, 2024) - upgraded to a main blog entry.
Getting back into making music. Struggling (as expected), since it has been a long time since I've written anything. Have a listen (.mp3, Catbox) to what I'm doing this immediate second, a Zundamon song written in Toki Pona. It's a bit of a mess right now, hopefully I can clean it up nicely enough. I also hope (assuming I keep the line since it's very cheesy, it's basically "listen, this song can do good to all" semi-literally, it sounds much less dumb in Toki Pona than in English) that I remember to change "kalama musi ni" in "o kute e ni: kalama musi ni li ken pona e jan ali" to "kalama musi mi".
At some point I will add a Toki Pona page to this site. I'd like to think I'm skilled with it, but I don't go to the big Toki Pona Discord since I don't use Discord (among other reasons), so I know I'm not well practiced beyond shouting "ko jaki soweli" (horseshit, dogshit, some kind of animal shit) when I see something dumb at work. I'll probably upgrade this entry when I finish the song.
The Maho Girls Precure sequel is in 2 months! I'm so excited. I should probably re-watch Maho, honestly. If it's anything like the Yes 5 sequel, I probably won't need to rewatch, but I feel like I should.
There's a trailer on YouTube.
I'm still a bit surprised they're even doing a sequel for Maho.
I absolutely feel like I should program more, but I can't be bothered to do it. I really do want to make another game with m(vl)gl in particular. A lot of stuff in modern programming is absolutely a pain, which definitely influenced m(vl)gl's design a lot. I'll probably expand my feelings on this in a full entry, it's like 12:30am and I have a headache, lmao.
I need to practice drawing faces. I'm typing this so I actually remember to do it. A lot of my drawings just have a circle with two lines for eyes because it makes my life a lot easier, and I want to fix that.
Magical Fami is so good... I'm not too far from the end. I'll write a main blog entry when I'm done with it. It's so good...
It does lose some steam around the end in terms of keeping me hooked, but it's still just such a great love letter to the Doremi franchise.
(November 4th, 2024) - upgraded to a main blog entry.
Still reading a bunch of manga. The Mazinger manga was fun (at least, before the Great Mazinger portion). The scans I found were kinda crap and I'm certain there were chapters missing. I'm reading Mitsudomoe, it's really dumb, but kinda funny. Reading Bleach still, and I'm reading Yu Yu Hakusho as well.
I want to read Violence Jack, but apparently there's a big gap in which chapters are translated, unless I can read Italian. I need to go finish Devilman Lady (really, restart it from the top) since it kicks ass. I think I stopped entirely because the tab I was reading it in got closed for whatever reason, lmao.
Manga is great. I feel like anime takes too much of my limited free time to binge on, but I can read a bunch of manga and start and stop whenever. I tried watching anime in that fashion, starting and stopping whenever, but noticed I'd barely finish 2 episodes in a week, so I gave it up.
Still reading Judge Dredd. I'm on the Hell Trekkers storyline, and it kicks ass. I will probably write a full entry later.
It is admittedly a wagon journey west story like you've probably read before, but it has a very cool Judge Dredd universe flair to it due to the madness of the Cursed Earth: towns full of mutants, hordes of dinosaurs, great lakes of lava, radiation storms, the works. Very thrilling storyline.
[edit] Finished it, the ending is kinda lame. Fun ride, though. Probably won't write a full entry for this storyline in particular, I'll probably do one for what I think of where I am in Dredd overall. Just finished the City of the Damned storyline, which was pretty cool if not amazing.
Started my miniblog! Entries will be short, maybe terse, maybe clunky, who knows. Who cares, lol.
I want to play Pop'n Music properly, but I don't have a controller. I use my IIDX controller with its 8 keys. There's a "key 0" to the top-left of key 1 so I can rotate my controller around for P2 side play in IIDX. Scratch is Pop'n key 1, that extra "key 0" is Pop'n key 2, and then IIDX 1-7 are Pop'n 3-9.
Whenever Pop'n key 2 shows up in a song, I start messing up. I am now increasingly aware of how many Pop'n songs seem to focus on keys 3-9 like if they were charted for IIDX, lol.
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